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Britney Spears was acceptable to creation disconnected the VMAs signifier to different clip and place.
While commemorating the 22nd day of her "I'm a Slave 4 U" performance astatine the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards—which remains 1 of the most iconic moments successful MTV history—Britney admitted that she was a spot tense astir her impermanent performer.
"One of my favourite performances was with an albino python," Spears said connected Instagram Sept. 6 alongside a clip of the snake connected her shoulders. "I inactive retrieve however frightened I felt erstwhile I was handed this snake and took the signifier !!!"
The Grammy victor went connected to enactment that she talks much astir this show and different favorites successful her upcoming memoir, The Woman In Me, which is acceptable for merchandise Oct. 24.
Spears had reflected connected her iconic show with the snake successful an exclusive E! News interrogation successful 2016.
"It's insane!" she said. "Why did I bash that?"
She besides said she does not program to do it again.
"Hell, no!" Spears said. "It's truthful dumb. No! Never!"
In 2021, the snake's handler, Michael Hano, told Yahoo! Entertainment that Spears' show could person been "really risky" due to the fact that the snake could person mistaken the vocalist for prey.
He also Today that contrary to fashionable belief, the reptile was really an amelanistic Burmese python, not an albino one. He also recalled moving with Spears earlier the ceremonial to marque her much comfy with the snake.
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"At 1 point, she said, 'He's not gonna wound me, right?'" helium shared. "And my reply is always, and my cause hates maine for this, 'Probably not.'"
He besides remembered telling the singer, "You're freakin' Britney Spears, you know, if this happening bites you, I deliberation my vocation is over."
But, arsenic fans astir the satellite witnessed that night, the show went disconnected without a hitch.
"She was precise good," Hano told Today. "She was precise focused and initially she was frightened of the snake, but you could spot that she was capable to absorption and benignant of propulsion yourself to beryllium capable to enactment with the happening and look comfy doing it."
Look backmost astatine much of the most memorable MTV VMAs moments of all clip below:
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Rage Against the Machine, 2000
Who could hide erstwhile Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford expressed his displeasure astatine the set losing an grant to Limp Bizkit by storming the signifier and scaling a show tower? Although his infinitesimal was short-lived connected television—since the web chopped to a commercial—in reality, Tim's nighttime was not since helium was arrested and sentenced to a nighttime successful jail.
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Lil Mama, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, 2009
Believe oregon not, the Kanye West-Taylor Swift incident was not the lone impromptu onstage infinitesimal to hap during the 2009 show. After the now-infamous interruption, Lil Mama decided to unexpectedly join chap New Yorkers Jay-Z and Alicia Keys during their duet of "Empire State of Mind."
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Madonna, 1984
The "Material Girl" famously sang "Like a Virgin" portion rolling astir the signifier successful a achromatic wedding dress.
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Howard Stern, 1992
The Shock Jock lived up to his raunchy estimation erstwhile helium was lowered onto the signifier arsenic a superhero named Fartman.
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Kurt Cobain vs. Axl Rose, 1992
The 2 were progressive successful 1 of the astir celebrated stone feuds. At the 1992 VMAs, tensions ran precocious backstage, wherever Cobain's wife Courtney Love, who besides brought on then-newborn daughter Frances Bean, taunted Rose, prompting the Guns N' Roses frontman to endanger to bushed up Cobain if helium didn't unopen his "bitch" up. Kurt past told Love, sarcastically, "Shut up, bitch!"
After helium performed with his set Nirvana, the group's drummer Dave Grohl kept saying "Hi, Axl!" into his mic.
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Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley, 1994
Shortly aft their wedding, the mates walked connected signifier holding hands arsenic the assemblage cheered. After Jackson declared, "I'm precise blessed to beryllium present and conscionable think, cipher thought this would last," the King of Pop and Elvis Presley's girl shared a buss and walked off.
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Fiona Apple, 1997
The songstress won the grant for Best New Artist successful a Video, but utilized her acceptance code arsenic an accidental to talk retired against Hollywood, telling viewers, "This satellite is bulls--t."
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Diana Ross and Lil' Kim, 1999
While presenting Best Hip-Hop Video, the legendary vocalist unexpectedly tapped Lil' Kim's exposed near breast.
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Britney Spears, 2001
The popular princess unforgettably took the signifier for her show of "I'm a Slave 4 U" with a snake draped implicit her shoulders.
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Eminem vs. Moby, 2002
Amid an ongoing feud between Eminem and Moby, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog poked amusive astatine their beef portion roasting the second artist to his look successful the VMAs audience. Triumph past attempted to bash the aforesaid to Eminem, who was not successful the mood.
Eminem aboriginal took to the signifier to judge the grant for Best Male Video and said mid-speech, "That small Moby miss threw maine retired of my portion for a minute."
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Britney Spears & Madonna, 2003
To unfastened the show, Britney, Madonna and Christina Aguilera joined unneurotic for a rendition of "Like a Virgin" and "Hollywood," sealed with a headline-making buss betwixt the women.
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Britney Spears, 2007
The popular princess made her highly anticipated instrumentality to the VMA stage, though her show of "Gimme More" was panned.
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Kanye West, 2009
The rapper crashed the stage erstwhile Taylor Swift won Best Female Video due to the fact that helium thought Beyoncé "had 1 of the champion videos of each time." When Bey aboriginal won for Video of the Year, she asked T.Swift to articulation her connected signifier to person her moment.
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Lady Gaga, 2010
Gaga made headlines erstwhile she sported the now-unforgettable nutrient formal by Franc Fernandez arsenic the astir awarded prima of the night.
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Beyoncé, 2011
The popular prima announced she and Jay-Z were expecting their archetypal kid together erstwhile she cradled her babe bump connected the reddish carpet and virtually dropped her mic and rubbed her babe bump astatine the extremity of her show of "Love On Top."
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Justin Bieber, 2011
The Biebs had his ain snake infinitesimal erstwhile helium brought a babe boa constrictor named Johnson to the show.
Miley Cyrus, 2013
Hannah Montana who? The erstwhile Disney prima twerked her mode into MTV past with her show of "We Can't Stop" and a duet of "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke.
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Nicki Minaj vs. Miley Cyrus, 2015
While accepting the award for Best Hip-Hop Video for "Anaconda," Nicki confronted Miley, who was hosting, implicit antagonistic comments she had made astir the rapper successful a New York Times interview. She called the popular prima a "bitch" and asked her, "What's good?"
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Kanye West, 2015
At the extremity of his lengthy Video Vanguard acceptance speech, the rapper unforgettably announced his plan to tally for president successful 2020.
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Drake & Rihanna, 2016
The rapper sparked headlines when helium declared his love for the songstress portion presenting her with the 2016 Video Vanguard Award, telling the audience, "She's idiosyncratic I've been successful emotion with since I was 22-years-old."
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Fifth Harmony, 2017
On the heels of Camila Cabello's exit, the miss radical shocked the satellite erstwhile they opened their performance with the representation of a 5th subordinate falling disconnected the stage.
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